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I had my first weekend of teaching children’s church this past Sunday. I’m really not a teacher. Like, REALLY not a teacher. But I said I would give it a shot. I was sweating like crazy and I can’t really remember anything I said now, but I did it.

One thing I learned this weekend is that kids find absolutely anything funny. Part of the script said to say things like “it was a bit of a close shave” and I’d pull out shaving cream or “he saw the light” and I pull out a candle. I thought this was going to flop, but they laughed every time. My cousin was in our church for Easter and he even told my mom that he thought I was funny!

I also learned something silly this weekend.

I was talking about how when we have Jesus in our hearts we don’t have to be scared of anything.

*Little boy’s hand shoots up.*

“I’ll answer your question at the end…anyway, we can pray that-”

*Hand shoots up again.*

“I’ll get to you in a minute, so anyway-”

And then he kept his hand up for the rest of the time until I was done. At the end, he came up and told me this story:

“I’m scared of things too sometimes. When I’m in bed sometimes I think that a giant gingerbread man is after me. He’s like, a thousand feet tall. He has huge feet and he can eat me like, NOM NOM NOM and he runs after me and chases me everywhere and…”